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8K RANDOM READ/WRITE
We precondition our enterprise SSDs using 100% random 8K writes at QD256 for two drive fills. Performance data is recorded every second. We track this data to monitor the enterprise SSDs transition to steady-state and to verify that steady-state conditions are achieved before initiating queue depth testing.
Steady-state is established after a full drive fill and the average steady-state 8K random write performance is approximately 47K IOPS.
The PJ1 8K read average performance of 549K is decent.
8K 70/30
8K 70/30 is representative of a typical database workload and 157K IOPS is great.
8K 50/50
96K 8K 50/50 write IOPS is a good result, especially watching its performance level out as it does.
REPORT SUMMARY AND FINAL THOUGHTS
When we started this report, our Enterprise Test Bench was running on a SATA 3 SSD to ensure the all CPU lanes were fully available for testing. As promised, we switched that over to the SSSTC PJ1-KW3840P Gen4 SSD and yes, maybe that is going overboard just a tad but when you have the technology in hand, put it to use right? There is just so much to be impressed with when considering this SSD and its intended use. It has great Gen 4 performance, is available in U.2, M.2 and E1.S form factors and with a great range of capacities as high as 7680GB.
It’s massive feature set screams enterprise and you have to know that the PJ1 right now is trusted to run some of the largest, most valuable and mission critical enterprise and data center systems available. AI…Edge…HPC servers and so much more. This 4TB Gen4 boot drive SSD is an ideal choice, especially at only 8watts active power ratings.
